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Johann Ambrosius
- Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, on March 31, 1685 (N.S.) / March 21, 1685 (O.S.), Johann Sebastian Bach came from a family of musicians, stretching back several generations. His father, Johann Ambrosius, worked as the town musician in Eisenach, and it is believed that he taught young Johann to play the violin.
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Jul 24, 2024 · Bach appears to have been a good husband and father. Indeed, he was the father of 20 children, only 10 of whom survived to maturity. There is amusing evidence of a certain thriftiness—a necessary virtue, for he was never more than moderately well off and he delighted in hospitality .
Jun 16, 2018 · His children with Maria Barbara. Bach became a father for the first time at the rather young age of twenty-three and his first-born, Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708 – 1774), went on to become an accomplished singer.
Bach's mother died in 1694, and his father died eight months later. [12] The 10-year-old Bach moved in with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach, the organist at St. Michael's Church in Ohrdruf, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. [13]
Bach has living descendants via two granddaughters born to Friedemann and Johann Christoph Friedrich, respectively. Anna Philippine Friederike (1755–1804), sister of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, married Wilhelm Ernst Colson, a lieutenant in an artillery regiment. They had five sons and a daughter.
Bach lost a brother and a sister in early childhood, and his mother died when he was only nine years old. Hit by poor sewage disposal and badly organised waste disposal, his father died nine months later in February 1695.
Apr 3, 2014 · His father, Johann Ambrosius, worked as the town musician in Eisenach, and it is believed that he taught young Johann to play the violin.
May 8, 2023 · His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645-1695), was a musician for the local council of Eisenach. Johann Sebastian's mother was Maria Elisabetha, and he had seven siblings. Johann Sebastian was left an orphan when his mother died in May 1694 and then his father shortly after in the autumn of the same year.
